SUB GENRE RESEARCH
SLASHERS
"A slasher film is a sub genre of thriller and horror film, typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and murdering a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a bladed tool such as a knife, machete, axe, scythe, or chainsaw. Although the term "slasher" may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the genre has established its own set of characteristics which set it apart from related genres like the splatter film and psychological thriller". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slasher_film)
Slasher films date back to the time of the French Theater of Grand Guignol. The popularity of Alfred Hitchcocks Phsyco influenced lots of sub genres around the world, incorporating them into what would become the slasher genre. Slashers normally end with a "Final Girl". This means that one of the characters in the film is left to fight the killer and this character is normally virginal and moralistic figure. They are normally shy but very smart and are therefore able to turn the "cat and mouse" style games of the killer to their advantage and are able to fend off their attacker in some way. However not all "Final girls" survive. In most slasher films they are killed just before the final credits fall to give the audience a final shock. Even if the final girl does survive however they do not normally survive the sequel of a film and are normally killed in the opening few scenes. |
SUPERNATURAL/PARANORMAL
The sub-genre of supernatural covers all things like Demons, Ghosts, Ouiji boards, Exersisoms, ect. These are things that do not exist or are belived not to exist and are therefore thought of as superstition. Soem of the films that come under the genre of supernatural are The Excorcist, Paranormal activity, Ouija, The Grudge and Annabell. Paranormal activity is a good example of supernatural films as it shows "actual footage" of a family or couple in a house that supposidly gets haunted. It shows the Ghost side of supernatural films quite well however films like the Exorcist and Annabell show another side of supernatural which is the Demon side and also the more gorey side of supernatural films.
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MONSTER
Another sub-genre of horror films is Monster. This includes things like Zombies, Vampiers, Mythialogical, Warewolves, Giant monsters and Aliens. This genre includes lots of films and a few are Godzille, giant; World War Z, Zombies; Fankinstien, Mythological; Dracula, Vampiers; Alien, Aliens. These films tend not to target the Physiological side of horror and so are normally targeted at the audiences jump ability.
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